A decade ago, an encouraging bipartisan consensus was emerging for the need to reform public-safety policies in a way that improved crime-fighting and cost-efficiency and assured that policing better upheld Americans’ constitutional liberties. One core belief: militarizing police forces—a vestige of the failed War on Drugs — threatened those goals.

“The militarization of police, whereby their outward appearance and display of weapons, uniforms and equipment convey the image of a soldier at war rather than a keeper of the peace (and the accompanying preference for force over other options to solve problems) breaks the necessary bonds between the community and its police officers,” explained conservative reform group, Right on Crime.

Sadly, the Trump administration has obliterated that con

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